Season 5

On her six-month anniversary, Thelma feels neglected because Reuben is teaching night school.

After a woman is car-jacked, with her baby still in the car with the theif, the thief drops the baby off on the doorsteps of the First Community Church. And since Thelma has no children of her own, whe makes plans to become the child's foster mother, against objections from the deacon and the Rev. Soon the child even begins to soften the deacon's stand. But in the end, Thelma is determined to hold onto the baby. . . until the child's mother shows up. Meanwhile, Deacon Frye is tax audited and owes Uncle Sam a large sum of money.

Frye establishes a day care center called ""Deaconland.""

Frye takes in a trouble-prone teen, a would-be rapper dubbed ""Clarence So Fine.""

Frye backs a man claiming to be Santa Claus. (Part 1 of 2)

Newly appointed to the bench, power-drunk Judge Frye aims to throw the book at all who come before him.

Reuben's visiting niece reveals she's leaving seminary school to become a singer, and Frye enters her in a gospelfest.

Frye sees publicity in a televised trial involving writer-comedian Steve Allen in a suit against a fried-chicken mogul.

Frye dates a beautiful and much younger environmentalist.

The deacon reassembles his '50s doo-wop group for a benefit.

Frye and Ruben both try to intervene when the Deacon's pro basketball player client, wants to marry Amelia and move to Italy. Will Love intervene instead and short-circuit the deacon's plans?

Rapper MC Hammer has a dual role as a flamboyant minister and as himself, busting a move to keep Clarence in school. Guard: Jacques Apollo Bolton. Clarence: Bumper Robinson. Rev. Gregory: Clifton Davis.

Thelma gets her own TV cooking show.

Judge Frye visits an old nemesis who tries to set him up in a sting operation. The judge is offered a large sum of money to alter the outcome of a certain case he presides over. And while everyone watches him on film, Judge Frye must make one of the toughest decisions of his life: whether to be honest and turn the money down, or enjoy the spice of life, with all that cash!

Deacon Frye dates a teacher Clarence likes, and the 2 begin to bump heads.

At an auction, an insufferable woman wins a date with Frye.

Frye and Clarence try raising church funds by dating wealthy Darla and her equally unattractive granddaughter Darletta.

Appearances by James Brown and Lloyd Price aren't the only surprises during a telethon to save the church: Thelma delivers a baby boy. (Part 2 of 2) Her delivery overdue, Thelma attends a telethon.